klap
05.25.11 | the best condiment |
Bassist540
05.25.11 | Nice. I'm going into Computer Graphics. |
redskyformiles
05.25.11 | false. sriracha is the best confiment |
omnipanzer
05.25.11 | Fast Food nation
The Jungle < ----------- historically noteworthy in comparison to FFN |
klap
05.25.11 | sriracha is one of my favorites but i don't think it matches mustard's versatility adam |
Knott-
05.25.11 | 1 hell yeah lived in dijon last year hell yeah : ) |
thebhoy
05.25.11 | Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor
Tomson Highway - Kiss of the Fur Queen
Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place
Bam, none of those are early 20th century.
...But I will recommend one from that time period BUT it's not crazy modernism stuff, it's just pure awesomeness.
Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Fictions |
robertsona
05.25.11 | Tinkers by Paul Harding.
Was going to suggest Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf but that's early 20th century shit...still so excellent!!!! |
robertsona
05.25.11 | mustard is so gross |
klap
05.25.11 | alex, i remember when i was young and innocent and thought mustard was just your regular condiment, but then i matured and realized what a wonderful tool it was in enhancing food. also have already read fast food nation and mrs dolloway
thanks for the recs keels im getting on that |
joshuatree
05.25.11 | Stoner - John Williams (possibly my 2nd favorite book ever, after Infinite Jest, which I hope you've heard of)
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
World's End - T.C. Boyle
Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell |
redskyformiles
05.25.11 | If on a winter's night a traveler... - Italo Calvino
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa |
klap
05.25.11 | thanks all |
Blackbelt54
05.25.11 | that is a really good ranking of mustard, almost completely agree |
Aids
05.25.11 | oh my god awesome list
have you read 'Ishmael' or any of the books in the series? I believe the author's name is Daniel Quinn. They're lifechanging books in my opinion, brilliant stuff. You should check it (them) out if you haven't already. Start with 'Ishmael' and read them in order. 'My Ishmael' is better but needs the context of the first to realize it's brilliance.
/rant
how did you end up feeling about Codes and Keys? I'm thinking 3.5 |
Adabelle
05.25.11 | Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
Manpoints for reading in original Russian.. |
aokuneff
05.25.11 | reading house of leaves and am as confused as i am engulfed. i'm wayy too frightened of gravity's rainbow to try it. props to you if that takes you less than all summet to get through |
Blindsided
05.25.11 | Why is that I've never heard of a single book rec'd here? Am I retarded? |
aokuneff
05.25.11 | oh and mustard is so gross [2] and i'm pretty sure i'm older than you so don't try and pull the young and innocent card again |
foreverendeared
05.25.11 | Catch 22
The Brothers Karamazov
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Pale Fire
All pretty heavy novels I highly recommend. |
foreverendeared
05.25.11 | "Why is that I've never heard of a single book rec'd here? Am I retarded?"
Kind of. Most of the novels mentioned thus far are extremely well known. |
thebhoy
05.25.11 | oooh Adam Thomas just reminded me I want to read Calvino |
klap
05.25.11 | already read catch 22/underworld/ulysses, but will look into everything else. so far probably starting with gravity's rainbow, hawksmoor, and stoner.
still confused as to how someone can not like mustard |
AggravatedYeti
05.25.11 | blood meridian |
tkxxx7
05.25.11 | I hate mustard usually, but 7 is the best. |
TheFonz123
05.25.11 | Read:
In Cold Blood By Truman Capote
THe Great Gatsby (Although you've probably already read it)By F. Scott Fitzgerald
White Teeth By Zadeie Smith
The Things THey Carried By Tim O' Brien
|
thebhoy
05.25.11 | YES BLOOD MERIDIAN. It's seriously one of my favourite novels.
Also, read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, for serious! |
klap
05.25.11 | yesss blood meridian was on my list as well, thanks for reminding me yeti. also aids i'm thinking 3-3.5, gonna give it some time |
robertsona
05.25.11 | what did you think of ulysses? |
Satellite
05.25.11 | i fucking love mustard!!!
the lost continent - bill bryson
sex, drugs & cocoa puffs - chuck klosterman
the master and margarita - mikhail bulgakov
do androids dream of electric sheep? - philip k. dick
the stranger - albert camus
the trial - franz kafka
ham on rye - charles bukowski |
mynameischan
05.25.11 | tree of smoke - denis johnson
anything cormac mccarthy
the savage detectives - roberto bolano
the executioner's song - norman mailer (i believe this is out of print though)
and yes you can't go wrong reading borges's collected fictions |
RadioheadSucks
05.25.11 | Anything by Dennis Lehane, man's a genius. Shutter Island is 100x better as a book and so is Mystic River. |
klap
05.25.11 | ulysses was ok for joyce, but i prefer him in smaller doses i.e. dubliners, if i prefer him at all, which i'm only capable of in an academic setting
thanks chan/satty, think im grabbing tree of smoke as well |
wabbit
05.25.11 | "do androids dream of electric sheep? - philip k. dick"
I really need to read that seeing as Bladerunner is my favourite movie ever
|
WeepingBanana
05.25.11 | The Stranger - Albert Camus |
thebhoy
05.26.11 | so depressing how many books I need to read and can't right now because of goddam summer school |
Emim
05.26.11 | mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmustard |
klap
05.26.11 | what summer class you taking keels |
AggravatedYeti
05.26.11 | if you enjoy it Rudy grab All The Pretty Horses too.
fuckin McCarthy and the Wild West. so bloody, so good. |
thebhoy
05.26.11 | I'm about to start All the Pretty Horses when I'm done 1984 and Foe.
I'm taking History of Modern Italy and History of the English Language (One is a history course, the other english). Intersession so two full year courses condensed into 6 weeks. Fuck all of my lives. |
AggravatedYeti
05.26.11 | 3 excellent books there Keelan. as expected really.
good luck with the condensed semester. I did that with my Ancient Egyptian Art and Northern Renaissance classes a few years back.
Was hell with a j-o-b + drinking schedule. |
Superbus
05.26.11 | did i just seriously read a list about mustard on a music site? |
AggravatedYeti
05.26.11 | maybe u dum. |
AggravatedYeti
05.26.11 | or maybe mustard is THAT GOOD. |
klap
05.26.11 | mustard is worth it |
nibbles
05.26.11 | no offense but most of the kids i know who like to read books outside of school are total chudders |
klap
05.26.11 | the area where you live must be unfortunately devoid of gyms or fitness areas |
qwe3
05.26.11 | if you like Gravity's Rainbow read Infinite Jest |
wabbit
05.26.11 | "no offense but most of the kids i know who like to read books outside of school are total chudders"
That is the most retarded statement I have heard all day and I had to deal with a drunk special needs man who had crashed his Rascal into a tree today at work...and you topped that. |
aokuneff
05.27.11 | i tried and failed to get through catch 22. i must fail at life -- or i expect shit to grab me like 'scar tissue' grabbed me |
aokuneff
05.27.11 | seriously anthony kiedis has managed to document his life so effectively and seamlessly it is definitely an awesome book for any music lover. particularly for those who enjoy some of the early chili peppers' albums |
theacademy
05.27.11 | most of these recs are bleh. don't waste your time with them.
find any collection of short stories from Richard Matheson.
read Steve Alten's "Meg."
teach yourself a foreign language. |
Liberi Fatali
05.27.11 | I would recommend one of Malcolm Gladwell's books, they're always reasonably interesting. |
ferociouslettuce
05.27.11 | teach yourself a foreign language [2]
house of leaves is destroying me right now |
theacademy
05.27.11 | catcher in the rye is the best book ever written when you're in middle school. i weep for anybody who missed their chance to feel that way about it.
lol @ the others. |
ferociouslettuce
05.27.11 | yea. holden caulfield was a young soul searcher i suppose |
Winesburgohio
05.27.11 | Haruki Murakami-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
John Steinbeck-East of Eden
DFW-Infinite Jest
Jim Munroe-Flyboy Action Figure comes with Gasmask (FUCKING COOL) |
Loanshark
05.27.11 | Didn't even know so many different types of mustard existed.... |
AggravatedYeti
05.27.11 | Catcher is still a great book you just grow out of it.
also lol @ acad's opinion on anything : ) |
theacademy
05.27.11 | that's exactly what i am saying
you just agreed with my opinion
or worse, i agree with YOUR opinion...
|
theacademy
05.27.11 | 5 classic
Animal Collective Feels
Easily my favorite Collective release, and the album that put me to bed many nights in 2006, 'Feels' is...
.....
/wrists |
Tyrael
05.27.11 | Indeed, Merriweather Post Pavilion is obviously better. |
AggravatedYeti
05.27.11 | the academy
jose
.....
/butt |
AggravatedYeti
05.27.11 | Feels all day erry day.
but no need to nitpick, this isn't a Jared review. |
klap
05.27.11 | love richard matheson acad |
Emim
05.27.11 | "That is the most retarded statement I have heard all day and I had to deal with a drunk special needs man who had crashed his Rascal into a tree today at work...and you topped that. "
hahahahahaha, even a blind rabbit finds a carrot sometimes |
